I got a c64 from my mother when I was 12 or 13. It was a lot of money for her back then. My best gift in my life ever. I still have it now many years later….

I grew up on Commodore VIC-20 and then Commodore 64... alas.. those were the good old days, back in the time...

Commodore64...feels like 3000 years ago but such sweet memories as a kid.

I never used a C64 but I know a number of school mates had them, and it was considered the pinnacle of 8-bit home computing. The sound of the keystrokes is very satisfying.

I'm a product of the C-64 generation. Best times ever.

Loved growing up with this in our house. So many awesome memories!

Loved my c64 as a 10 year old it completely changed my outlook on life

My first home computer when I was 12. I spent many time with this computer. Loved the games and creating programs in BASIC.

My C64 was my first working computer. Loved it so much I still have it over 35 years later! I also had a CoCo2 as well.

As a Gen X 52 year old...this was the gateway to everything I enjoy today. It wasn't the first computer I used but it was the first computer i OWNED...LOved this thing...still my favourite PC of all time.

The joy of choosing games. The smell of a computer games store was wonderful

I was an employee @ Commodore 1980 - 1984. I enjoyed the 1701 Color Monitor made by JVC. - thanks for the video.

My C64 was my second computer after moving on from a TI 99/4A just as I entered high school. I sold it just before leaving for college, which was a mistake, but I learned of the Amiga 1000 which I used in college for all my word processing and arcade game needs. I still have it and use it to this day and is more satisfying than some PC compatible to use.

I made some games and sold them to Ahoy! Commodore magazine and softdisk. I was 22 at the time.

No way only 17k views should be 1.7mil production quality is insane

Lots of good memories about the C64. I learnt a lot and wrote my own programs. Wasn't into games much. My best experience with this type of computer was the C128D running in 80 column fast mode. If they bought that back again with a faster processor I'm sure a lot of people would buy it.

My family's first computer was an Apple IIc. The Oregon Trail was my favorite game growing up.

Love it, thanks for sharing:) I've been repairing, refurbishing and collecting them for 4 years now. Brings back childhood memories.

I learned on Apple II computers in Elementary school and my first owned computer at home was the Commodore 64 which I received for Christmas 1983. Both computers are near and dear to my heart. Nice video by the way.

COMMODORE 64 FOREVER 😺👍🕹️! I still own and play the original hardwares of the Commodore 64 (tapes / disks / cartridges) and Amiga 500 😺👍🕹️. Big retrospective like 👍 from Vantaa, Finland 🇫🇮. 😺👍

I still have my 3 C-64's, along with peripherals, disks & related paperwork (manuals, magazines, printouts). One of my C-64's is my first ever, bought in 1983. I also have my Schnedler Turbomaster CPU, which I bought in 1990, so I was able to enjoy a C-64 that was 4 times faster than normal, nearly a decade before the CMD SuperCPU & modern C-64 emulators on PC, such as CCS & Vice. With my Turbomaster attached to the C-64, I was able to play games or non-games that profited from a faster processing clock, such as Stellar 7, Gunship, Karateka, Rescue on Fractalus, GEOS64, etc. All of these plus other software worked at 4 times faster, so a 3D vector/wireframe game that might be running at around 5-7 fps would now run closer to 30 fps, basically real-life speed. Not all programs had any speed improvements though. Again, some of us who bought these accelerators early on enjoyed them back in the days when the C-64 was starting to show its age, that being in the late 1980's & early 1990's. The accelerator made my C-64 rival that of a classic Macintosh or a 286 PC. Apart from the games & productivity programs, one of the attraction of the C-64 for me was its SID chip, as I was starting to get into synthesizers by the early 1980's. I even made a program that sort of emulated the look of the Juno 106 synth & then used that program as a finals project for computer classes in highschool, of which my highschool's main computers were TRS-80's. In fact, that highschool introduced me to Commodore as they had a lone PET 2k sitting in the back of the science classroom. If I recall, I really only knew 2 other classmates that had C-64's, one of them having the SX-64. But nice video, hope you delve more into this classic machine. 03/26/24

I used to write machine code in data segments and poke them to memory. This gave me an edge later in my programming carreer, as I was usually the only person who fully understood what computers did under the hood.

If you still have the opportunity, be sure to thank your parents if they got you an 8-bit era computer! To this day, I still thank my Mom almost weekly over her (and Dad) getting me a C64 as a kid. Happiest childhood ever was spending countless hours with this amazing machine.

c64 is my fav computer of all time. Vic 20 was my first ever computer own

Exploring the sprite multicolor bits will allow you to achieve some impressive looking sprites. Then writing sprites in assembly language will give even further control with setting scan line blending. Nice video. Thanks for making the Commodore 64 look great!

Liked the "Maniac" segments. Very good use of music with sped up video. :)

My Commodore 64 was used to type all my college papers. Great machine.

Exactly 30 years ago as of today, Aprir 29th 1994 Commodore International filed for bankruptcy. C64 is the all time highest selling computer model and some estimates states that it was sold all the way to 17 million units. 64KB of memory, so little of it, but never forgotten

My C64 and 1541-II still work perfectly. And both have the original warranty seals - never disassembled.

My first computer was a VIC-20. I upgraded to a C-64 came out and had it for several years. Ran a BBS and met other C-64 owners. Sold it and all of the peripherals for $100 in 1987 - wish I would have kept it.

Check out some of the demos released at X2023 to see what people are doing TODAY with that system, it's mind-blowing, when you run the winning entries on the actual '82 hardware.

The first time is always so magical.

I have an amiga500 but i love my c64 and still use it even now.

Fantastic machine

She was a beauty!

We got our around 1986 (I was 5), was connected to a small old B/W tv. First played lots of games from tape. After about a year my father brought a diskdrive home, what an improvement! Don't have the original we had back then, but have a few others now, still have the disks from back then and they still work fine! A few times a year I try to take on the highscores my father set, good memories. Battling against my brother still for highscore as well, both on our own. Gave him a complete boxet set, C64, diskdrive, monitor and joysticks 15 years back, when they where still affordable, he and his friends where quite surprised.....

Every time you post something it's a treat. Would love to visit your museum!

Gut that power adapter and replace it with a more modern design! The original power supply is what caused premature death for many C64s. Adrian Black, Jan Beta, Retro Hack Shack, and the 8-Bit Guy cover ways and means of accomplishing this.

An alternative to the inverted heart symbol would be PRINT CHR$(147) which will also clear the screen.

One thing to be aware of is that the original Commodore "brick" type power supplies have a failure mode where it will supply too high of a voltage to the machine and will damage now rare and hard to find chips inside. I'd recommend either a modern aftermarket power supply, or a "64 saver" which will cut power to the machine if the power supply starts to overvoltage the unit. Good luck!

En Argentina también se produjo el C64 (PAL), fué (y es) una computadora muy querida. Pura satisfacción. Tengo varias y también un C128 que uso y cuido mucho

Late to this video but i had a Vic 20 & Commodore 64. I played a game called Telengard in 8-10 hour marathons eith a HS buddy. Such a simple but fun early dungeon crawler.

There is a small bug in that demo. The random dot that is separated from the right eyebrow is because the wrong number was put in the 7th data statement. Fixing typos in magazine listings was how I learned programming in the first place. The keyboard does have a nice feel compared to an Atari 800XL, but doesn't hold up to the original Atari 800 or 1200 XL keyboards. There were a lot of oddly named and oddly placed keys on the C64 keyboard. I'm always hitting the "HOME" key when all I wanted was a backspace (Delete). What's with Run/Stop-Restore when a simple Reset key would suffice?

I almost like the C64 FOR its quirks- Those F and arrow keys- it’s muddy colours, tricky basic, the slowww loading. It had it where it counted which made it so popular.

I remember being around 12 years old and trying to mow lawns and save up for the Commodore. I never could save enough money for it. What I use now would blow the 12 year old in me over.

Bought a NTSC C64 when I come over to the states (originally UK) as I still have my C64c that my mum bought me when I was a kid (and it still works). I really need to come and visit your place (me being so close in the 'secret city') started with a C16, so Commodore will always be in my heart. (oh, I've got two 1541's) Keep up the good work and hope to see ya soon.

I don't understand the complaints about the C64 cursor keys in 1982. What did the competition have? The Apple II and II+ didn't even have up or down cursor keys. The Atari 800 had them on other keys so you had to use a modifier key to move the cursor any direction. The IBM PC had them on top of the numberpad so you had to constantly toggle between numlock on or off. The Coco at least had all 4, but had them split up on the left and right side of the keyboard so you needed two hands to use them! I don't see how any of these are better than the C64's layout.

You can connect 2 pins in joystick port1. Earth and reset. It wipes any basic but keeps machine code intact.Accessible through a sys address

The C64 was the king of all computers back in its day. It's a damn shame you never had one as a child. You should never use the original power supply, though. Those things could fry your computer when they were new. I lost my first C64 to a faulty power brick after only owning it for about a year. I build my own power supplies for the vintage machines I have now.

I didn’t like the basic until I leaned how to blitz it. Once I did that it kinda put it into a low level code. Not exactly as fast as machine language, but not as slow as basic and put it in between and it gave it a sys address

I got my start with the VIC-20 in 1982 and then moved to the C64 somewhere around 1987. They were pretty great computers.

Great episode !!!

Cool. Never saw anything like that when I grew up with the C64 nearly all my friends had. All they used it for was playing and copying games to give to each other. lol And yes...everyone had A LOT of titles! This was the XBox of the time! One kid I knew had an argument with another kid over one of those drives I think and one killed the other with a hammer. All over the news they spun it off as a computer genius was murdered. But we all knew all he did was copy and play lots of games. Ah...memories...lol

Wow ,you're literally 5 or 6 minutes from me, My little boy and I really want to come see the museum, and Ive got a few 8 in church fan floppies if you need them.

One of my fav computers in high school.

I remember typing in the games from the computer magazines for my Atari 800 with my brother & best friend back them. 👍

Surprised you didn't mention how they also kept costs down by using the Vic20 case which then went on to be used on the C16

Great video :) We all ♥C64 :)

The C=64 is the Legend. But my first computer was a C=VIC-20 (it has also a nice spot in my heart), when my childhood friend got a C64 i convinced mother to buy a C64 too, cant forget the afternoons playing Forbidden Forest II with friends, it was like be inside a horror/surviving movie, we put light off for better atmosphere. I have fond memories also of the Amiga times, Commodore was a big thing in Italy back in the days, there were Commodore shops (or points or centers, dont remember the exact name) in many towns, there is a song of an Italian band quite populare in Italy in the late '90-2000 that says that now in Heaven, the gods are playing with the C64.

I had one in my younger age but i threw it away in garbage...but i still have its cassette player...all new box packed....my uncle baught it from New York

Hard to believe, but now, even the cheapest smartphone of today is many thousands of times more powerful than the Commodore 64.

Missed out on the C64, I had C16 as my 1st computer, I have C64C now in my collection, so I don't now how to use C64 either.

Nice video!

My first Love.

I have never had a problem with the 1541 drives. However the Power Supplies can be a bit dodgy as well as the PLA and SID chips.

You should try the cassete player

Great machine. Unfortunately I became the owner of a commodore plus 4 instead. The c64 was a much more capable system and I was so envious of my friends.

Great video ...The awesome C64 ... of you ever need any info .. ive got most things commodore related 😉

cool keyboard!! what switches, red or brown?? :-)))))

You know where I can find the whole setup? I had the whole setup but everything wore out.

Please please please do not use an original C64 power brick. The PSUs are notorious for failing and frying chips. There are modern replacements you can buy. Or pass-through protectors that will save the chips if it surges

In what way does the music program not work as advertised? Works for me™.

First computer I ever used.

I threw when pentium came full desk top of Compaq launched 😢

Typing like a maniac. 😁

A friend of mine had a C64c but I was not impressed with its capabilities. As an Atari 8bit owner I was already enjoying a capable BASIC language , colorful games with fast scrolling, multichannel sound and vibrant colors(PAL) so my first impression of the C64 with its washed out colors, slow drive and muffled sound wasn't that good. The Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum were far more different machines from the Atari and the Commodore and they ended up getting my attention . 30 years later and I finally own a couple of C64s and I can appreciate how better homebrew games look, sound and...load. Still without the element of nostalgia I can't really justify any of the bold claims made by the fans of the platform.

You shouldn't use the original power brick,they are known to be dodgy and can damage your Commodore 64. There are several companies that make replacement PSUs. I have mine from a company in Poland.

Y'all should get a new power supply, you do not want a voltage spike from a failing PSU to kill your board.

I love the video and i have this version C64 im looking for someone to buy it

To think I hold in my hand 128 GB of storage capacity on a smartphone.

Would have been nice if the video was 10 minutes longer.... And no prepackaged games, which you said would be in this video!

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I keep on making this comment in videos like this one, but I just can't help it - "had one, so sorry I didn't keep it".

The power supply was great keeping my feet warm. Don't use them anymore. They can destroy your 64.

i was the person that made the likes go from 999 to 1k

I like to throw an unpopular opninion, but IMO the C64 is a piece of junk, and not worth investing time in in 2024 if you have no nostalgia for it. There were so many other machines that did basic things so much better. Key "failures" of the C64 are: ugly box, impossible keyboard layout (that accidental color change when typing, you know what I talk about), weird non-standard ports, power-brick-of-death, disk drive that was slower than tape, very bad BASIC for its time, with omissions like integer calculation, normal upper/lower case behaviour, normal load commands, non-destructive disk index, EDIT, insert at cursor, 80-character mode, sound commands, the video output was garbage especially on a TV, the colour palette was appaling, BASIC was slow. Yes it was populor, yes it brought games to many homes, but NO the C64 is NOT a machine to use today to get a good feel of eighties programming and what home computers can be. It is only like 70 bucks to try, so go ahead, but don't think a C128 will make life better, as that machine is even worse.

The only time I got to use a C64 was a few time when I visited my uncle when I was a kid. Wouldn't mind having one to play with now days.

AMO ESTA COMPUTADORAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

+++🛃🐸+++i 🐸❓❓+++REMEMBER MY FIRST COMMODORE 64 🛂+++IT WAS IN 1983+++🤩🥰🛂++++LOVED IT+++